Perhaps Quotes

I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.

Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.

But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.